A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 5 |
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¹ Old copy ALEXANDRO AMBASSADOR AMURATH Andrea ANTONY arms BALTHAZAR BASILISCO BELL'-IMPERIA blood brave BRUSOR Brutus Cæsar captains CASTILE CHORUS CICERO CORNELIA CYPRUS death didst ditto doth earth Enter Erastus Exeunt Exit eyes fair fear Ferdinando fight Fortune GHOST give grace gracious grief GUELPIO Haleb hand HANGMAN hate hath hear heart heaven hell HIERONIMO honour hope Horatio ISABELLA Jack Straw Janissaries king knight knight of Rhodes laments live look lord LORENZO LUCINA madam majesty Methinks murder murder'd never pardon PEDRINGANO PERSEDA PHILIPPO PISTON pleasure Pompey Portingal prince rage rebels rest revenge Rhodes Rome Scipio Serberine sirrah slain SOLIMAN sorrow soul Spain Spanish Tragedy speak stay sweet sword tears tell thee thine thou art thou hast thou shalt unto valour VICEROY villain VILLUPPO Wat Tyler Wherein words wound wrath wretched
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Page 116 - She should have shone : search thou the book ! Had the moon shone in my boy's face, there was a kind of grace, That I know, nay I do know, had the murderer seen him, His weapon would have fallen, and cut the earth, Had be been framed of naught but blood and death ; Alack, when mischief doth it knows not what, What shall we say to mischief?
Page 54 - twas no dream. No, no, it was some woman cried for help, And here within this garden did she cry, And in this garden must I rescue her. — But stay, what murd'rous spectacle is this? A man hang'd up and all the murderers gone! 10 And in my bower, to lay the guilt on me ! This place was made for pleasure, not for death.
Page 8 - When I was slain, my soul descended straight To pass the flowing stream of Acheron; But churlish Charon, only boatman there, 20 Said that, my rites of burial not perform'd, I might not sit amongst his passengers. Ere Sol had slept three nights in Thetis...
Page 115 - Hecate there, the moon, Doth give consent to that is done in darkness ; And all those stars that gaze upon her face Are aglets on her sleeve, pins on her train ; And those that should be powerful and divine, Do sleep in darkness when they most should shine.] PEDRO.
Page 165 - Did urge her resolution to be such. And princes, now behold Hieronimo, Author and actor in this tragedy, Bearing his latest fortune in his fist: And will as resolute conclude his part As any of the actors gone before. 150 And, gentles, thus I end my play: Urge no more words: I have no more to say.
Page 45 - Let dangers go, thy war shall be with me, But such a war as breaks no bond of peace. Speak thou fair words, I'll cross them with fair words; Send thou sweet looks, I'll meet them with sweet looks; Write loving lines, I'll answer loving lines; Give me a kiss, I'll countercheck thy kiss: Be this our warring peace, or peaceful war.
Page 163 - Haply you think — but bootless are your thoughts — That this is fabulously counterfeit, And that we do as all tragedians do : To die to-day (for fashioning our scene) The death of Ajax or some Roman peer, And in a minute starting up again, Revive to please to-morrow's audience.
Page 119 - Ay, sir, no man did hold a son so dear. Hier. What, not as thine ? that's a lie, As massy as the earth : I had a son, Whose least unvalued hair did weigh A thousand of thy sons, and he was murder'd. Pain. Alas, sir, I had no more but he. Hier. Nor I, nor I ; but this same one of mine Was worth a legion.
Page 148 - Marry, my good lord, thus: (And yet, methinks, you are too quick with us)—: When in Toledo there I studied. It was my chance to write a tragedy: See here, my lords— [He shows them a book.
Page 118 - O ambitious beggar, wouldst thou have that That lives not in the world ? Why, all the undelved mines cannot buy An ounce of justice, 'tis a jewel so inestimable. I tell thee, God hath engrossed all justice in his hands, And there is none but what comes from him.